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1. Social Inequality (The Estates System)
• Three Estates:
• First Estate: Clergy (privileged, exempt from taxes).
• Second Estate: Nobility (wealthy landowners, also tax-exempt).
• Third Estate: Everyone else—peasants, city workers, bourgeoisie (paid all taxes, had few rights).
• The Third Estate made up about 98% of the population but had almost no political power.

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2. Economic Crisis
• National debt exploded from decades of war (especially the Seven Years’ War and helping the American Revolution).
• The royal court’s lavish spending, especially under Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, worsened public resentment.
• High taxes were levied on the poor while the rich remained largely untaxed.
• A series of bad harvests in the 1780s led to food shortages and rising bread prices—hunger fueled rage.

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3. Political Incompetence
• King Louis XVI was indecisive and weak in leadership.
• Failed reform attempts made things worse.
• The Estates-General, called in 1789 to address the crisis, exposed how unfair the system was—each estate had one vote, so the First and Second Estates could outvote the Third.